Re: [OT] Flash 10 for Fedora 8 x86_64

2008-10-15 Thread Mike C
Richard Shaw gmail.com> writes: > I just upgraded without issue on a x86_64 F8 system. I installed the i386 >version as I did not see a native 64bit version available using "yum list >'*flash*'". It seems to be much more CPU efficient. I haven't done any real >benchmarking but almost anything max

Re: encrypted swap question

2008-08-06 Thread Mike C
Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes: > Better in what way? I think either case gets you out of typing a 2nd > LIKS password. Using /dev/urandom seems to avoid having a password where > anyone could ever recover it, and I think using LUKS on swap will kill > suspend in either case (it may work better

Re: encrypted swap question

2008-08-05 Thread Mike C
Frank Cox sasktel.net> writes: > What's the point of encrypting a partition and then keeping the key for that > partition on the hard drive so you don't have to enter anything to access it? Well - if unencrypted then in principle in the even of theft the swap partition would have information in

Re: encrypted swap question

2008-08-05 Thread Mike C
Deron Meranda gmail.com> writes: > The / and primary swap partitions (or logical volumes) are handled a > bit differently than say /opt. They are mounted very early in the boot > process, and in fact are handled by the initrd's nash scripts. If you > change the LUKS options for these, you'll ne

encrypted swap question

2008-08-05 Thread Mike C
I have a machine with f9 clean installed and encrypted /, encrypted swap and encrypted /opt partitions. Of course during boot you are asked for the luks passphrase for all three partitions. I have been able to avoid the passphrase prompt for /opt, by placing a keyfile in /root and added this key

Re: Question on encrypted usbkey and CD in F9?

2008-08-01 Thread Mike C
Anders Karlsson trudheim.co.uk> writes: > http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=EncryptHomeDirUsingLUKS > to work out the steps needed to encrypt the USB key. Mounting it is as > simple as just inserting it and browsing it. It'll be detected as > encrypted. Great - thanks Mike -- fe

Re: Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-31 Thread Mike C
Todd Zullinger pobox.com> writes: > If you'd like to not have to disable the gpg signature check, that's > only a few more steps (most of which only need to be done once). Another valuable piece of the jigsaw - thank you for this Todd Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-30 Thread Mike C
John Austin jaa.org.uk> writes: > Please see below my notes to myself when doing the same for F5 > Hope they help > > John Fantastic - thank you very much for this... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-30 Thread Mike C
Mark Haney ercbroadband.org> writes: > Yes you can use the current F9 src rpm and build it for F7. I did the > same thing for FC6. As for Les' contention about the upgrade cycle, Thanks Mark - having never done this kind of building before is there a good easy to follow link to a guide expla

Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-29 Thread Mike C
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to fix bind (bind-chroot) running in an old machine running FC7 so that it offers the same protection as bind-chroot-9.5.0-28.P1.fc8 and bind-9.5.0-33.P1.fc9.i386 ?? Can one use the src rpm for F8 and re-configure it for FC7? I guess there are still quite

Re: SElinux concerning symlink?

2008-07-24 Thread Mike C
Stuart Sears sjsears.com> writes: > 6. let us know what the error messages are. We can be of more help that > way. Everything we do at the moment is little more than educated guesswork. OK many thanks Stuart - when I get back to the machine this evening I will get some answers to the questions

Re: NetworkManager sabotages DNS? on fc9

2008-07-24 Thread Mike C
McGuffey, David C. saic.com> writes: > My next task was to go looking at the logs to see what was trying to > scribble in resolve.conf...but your post puts me onto something. I have used static addressing for ages on desktops from FC1,2,3 onwards - and on a desktop machine the best way I know is

Re: Wine 1 and Office 2003?

2008-07-10 Thread Mike C
Frank Murphy utvinternet.com> writes: > You can run both in seperate bottles. > Or become an advocate for office 2003, and get the latest\ + nightly > builds, in returen for aiding and abetting > Thanks Frank, that sounds useful -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsub

Re: Wine 1 and Office 2003?

2008-07-10 Thread Mike C
Paul Smith gmail.com> writes: > VMware Server works fine here on F9. OK - thanks - one nice thing about Crossover (and Wine) is that one can run specific MS Office applications without having to install a full Windows VM operating system. I presume that with VMWare you have to install a full

Re: Wine 1 and Office 2003?

2008-07-10 Thread Mike C
Frank Murphy utvinternet.com> writes: > Have a look at Crossover Linux, if you don't wan't to run\virtualise > windows . > > http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/group/?app_parent=779; > > This is a report on office 2003 I do use Crossover too (I have been a paid up member for about

Wine 1 and Office 2003?

2008-07-10 Thread Mike C
Does anyone have Excel 2003 working under Wine in F8? I installed Office 2003 Pro after installing wine in F8, then running winecfg to make an initial setup, and using winetricks to install corefonts. I had to "yum install cabextract" before the winetricks script would install corefonts. I have t

Re: Problem with wine/crossover after today's update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg

2008-07-09 Thread Mike C
Mike C gmail.com> writes: Seems that this is a kernel related problem - I reverted back to 2.6.24.7-92.fc8 and now Excel XP runs fine under Crossover. The problem I was seeing was right clicking a cell and clearing the cell contents made Excel hang... and needing to reset all apps running un

Re: Problem with wine/crossover after today's update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg

2008-07-09 Thread Mike C
Mike C gmail.com> writes: > > After updating my F8 installation today (which includes update to > xorg-x11-server-Xorg) Whoops - I misread the log file - there was no update to xorg - But I am still getting crashes in Excel running under wine or crossover. Was OK yesterday.

Problem with wine/crossover after today's update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg

2008-07-09 Thread Mike C
After updating my F8 installation today (which includes update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg) I am getting crashes with Excel/Excel Xp and 2003 running under both wine and crossover. Anyone else seeing the same issues? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.red

Re: Wireless problems.

2008-06-23 Thread Mike C
Mike C gmail.com> writes: > modprobe -rv rt61 > modprobe -av rt61 > then > ifdown wlan0 > ifup wlan0 > > This just unloads the kernel module and reloads it, and then restarts > the wireless. I looked back and realised you have the rt61pci module listed but you can

Re: Wireless problems.

2008-06-23 Thread Mike C
Mark Haney ercbroadband.org> writes: > [root sulla ~]# ifconfig > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:E5:20:BF:BA >inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >RX packets:19 errors:0 dropp

Re: NetworkManager: how to select wireless interface

2008-06-09 Thread Mike C
Andrea googlemail.com> writes: > I just would like to know if it is possible to choose which interface to > use, and in case NM wants to connect both, how do I choose the default > gateway? I've seen it chosen at random so far. Equally at some point no doubt someone will want to have NM able to

Re: kernel update 2.6.25.4-10.fc8 breaking bootup

2008-06-06 Thread Mike C
David Halik jla.rutgers.edu> writes: > > Hi all, > > I just yum upgraded three different FC8 workstations I have here at work > to the latest kernel update and all three broke in the same manner. Upon I have also had problems with this kernel - see: http://marc.info/?l=fedora-test-list&m=121

Re: kde 4.04 - knotify crash on logout

2008-05-23 Thread Mike C
Anne Wilson googlemail.com> writes: > +1 I have been seeing a brief flash of a kde crash notification without being > able to read it, until 4.0.4, where it is clearly knotify. Yes and in 4.04 I can finally save the file - when I get back to that machine over the weekend I will add it to the BZ

Re: kde 4.04 - knotify crash on logout

2008-05-23 Thread Mike C
Mike C gmail.com> writes: > > I have been getting a knotify crash on logout from kde 4 for some time - OK I found it https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443230 I will add to that when I get a crash dump. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscri

kde 4.04 - knotify crash on logout

2008-05-23 Thread Mike C
I have been getting a knotify crash on logout from kde 4 for some time - With the 4.04 it is it is the same so I made a new user with useradd - so the config files are clean - and still get the same - after closing the knotify window logout proceeds ok but there is clearly a problem. Anyone else